Quotes About Isolation

It won't be long before the Facebook generation will be rejected by the non-Facebook people who will be rejected by the post-Facebook people. Everyone will be on their own planet.

I hate being rejected.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.

For anyone who can only handle about 12-minutes-per-day of anything news related before needing to retreat into isolation, allow me to recommend spending those 12 minutes listening to the opening monologue of 'The Rush Limbaugh Show.'

I saw in my life what pushed a lot of people to drugs was being an outcast to society, so being gay I related to that.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

China on the world stage, in terms of interaction with the rest of the world, has been relatively very new due to the long isolation period until Deng Xiaoping's times.

It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis. My parents didn't care about it, my classmates didn't care about it, my relatives didn't care about this. I mean nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one.

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

I can't express how wonderful it is to get feedback when you've been sort of in a bubble working on something and then you release it to the world and hope for the best. It's like the birth of a musical baby.